Bad vibes for Beach Boys show

A Broadway musical featuring songs by the Beach Boys is to close on Sunday after just three months. Good Vibrations, which is set around more than 30 Beach Boys tracks, was rubbished by critics when it opened on February 2.

The show, which tells the story of three best friends who leave the US east coast to go surfing in California, was branded 'amateurish' and a 'singing headache' with a 'sense of haphazard, try-anything desperation'.

The show's poor run contrasts greatly with the success of former group leader Brian Wilson's album Smile, which was finally finished and released last year after it was shelved in the 1960s. It was hoped Good Vibrations would enjoy the same success as Abba's Mamma Mia and Queen's We Will Rock You.